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Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—1/30/12—Like the other dilapidated houses on the block next to the train tracks, the Klimaka shelter for the homeless is covered with bold graffiti. They practically blot out its tomato-red façade and certainly distract attention from the name on its open door. I [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—1/16/12—The plan should have been foolproof. We’d set out in separate cars, but the destination seemed straightforward enough. We’d meet at the ancient site of Amphiaraion, a center of healing like Epidaurus, though on a miniature scale, and then move on to a [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis  ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—1/2/12—Two days after Christmas, we went to a christening in a sweet little church just outside Athens. The ceremony unfolded the way it’s meant to: the priest was benignly pious, the baby howled when dunked in the font, the parents beamed throughout, and [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—12/19/11—Crises bring up memories of other crises, and this country has had more than its share in the past hundred years: world wars, Balkan wars, a civil war, dictatorships, and financial upheavals. But there have also been times of relative calm and prosperity, [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis KIFISSIA Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—12/5/2011—Well, it isn’t really the season to be jolly, not quite, and yet bright lights are already twirled like beaded snakes round all the lamp posts on my street, and twinkling Christmas messages arch over every block. The electrical appliances shop at the [...]

“Eating Well Is The Best Revenge” by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—11/21/11—In the 60s, when I was a resident of the Big Apple, the Fifth Avenue buses used to stream downtown with this seductive ad along their sides: “It may be November in New York, but it’s still summer in Greece.” I’ve been wondering [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—11/7/11—Well, it’s that time of year again, olive-picking time, and although we’ve been on the island for a week, strong, nay furious, freezing winds kept us inside winterizing the house rather than attempting to pull olives off our laden trees. The wind finally [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—10/24/11—Like Woody Allen’s hero, Gil, in Midnight in Paris, I always wanted to have lived in Paris in the 1920s. Unlike Gil, I did live there in another belle époque, the early 60s. And most of the time, I knew even then that [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—10/10/11—We’ve been to fabled Mykonos enough times not to need to revisit, but when my dear friend, “The Fish,” confessed that her husband, Païdaki, “The Lamb Chop,” was allergic to Andros, it was obvious we Mountains would have to go to their Mecca. [...]

“Eating Well Is The Best Revenge” by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—9/12/2011—The Greeks have a saying about their countrymen from the island of Chios in the northeast Aegean. “The Chiots go about in pairs, two by two,” they’ll pronounce with a slightly mocking tone, as if to imply that in this land of ruthless [...]